Award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Kier-La Janisse presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria.

In 2012 Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, billed as 'an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.' It soon became one of the most 'vital' (Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog) and 'astonishing' (Daily Grindhouse) genre tomes of all time. To mark the book's 10th anniversary, award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Janisse now presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria, all on U.S. Blu-ray for the first time: Elizabeth Taylor stars in 1974's IDENTIKIT as a woman who travels to Rome to find the most dangerous liaison. In the surreal 1986 Polish horror-comedy I LIKE BATS, a vampire discovers that love may be the cruelest curse of all. Florinda Bolkan stars in the startling 1975 amnesiac giallo FOOTPRINTS from the director of THE FIFTH CORD. And British screenwriter and radical theatre icon Jane Arden directs 1972's harrowing THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH.

IDENTIKIT (102 mins/1.85:1/English Mono/CC, Italian Mono/English Subtitles)

Extras:

Intro By Kier-La Janisse

Commentary By Millie De Chirico

Chandra Mayor On Muriel Spark And The Driver's Seat

I LIKE BATS (81 mins/1.66:1/Polish Mono/English Subtitles)

Extras:

Intro By Kier-La Janisse

Commentary By Kamila Wielebska

strong>FOOTPRINTS (93 mins: U.S. Cut/96 mins: Italian Cut/1.85:1/English Mono/CC, Italian Mono/English Subtitles)

Extras:

Intro By Kier-La Janisse

Ida Galli Interview

Video Essay On Nicoletta Elmi

Commentary By Kat Ellinger

Vittorio Storaro Interview

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH (111 mins/1.33:1/English Mono/CC)

Extras:

Intro By Kier-La Janisse

Extended Workprint Version

Sheila Allen & Natasha Morgan Interviews

Extended Sequences

Penny Slinger At The Miskatonic Institute

Media

Bonus Materials

• Introduction To IDENTIKIT By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
• Audio Commentary For IDENTIKIT By TCM Underground Curator Millie De Chirico
• A Lack Of Absence — Writer And Literary Historian Chandra Mayor On Muriel Spark And The Driver's Seat
• THE DRIVER'S SEAT Credit Sequences
• IDENTIKIT Trailer
• Introduction To I LIKE BATS By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
• Audio Commentary For I LIKE BATS By Kamila Wielebska, Actor And Co-Editor Of A Story Of Sin: Surrealism In Polish Cinema
• I LIKE BATS TV Spot
• Introduction To FOOTPRINTS By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
• To The Moon — Interview With FOOTPRINTS Actress Ida Galli
• Nicoletta Elmi: Italian Cinema's Imp Ascendent — Video Essay By Film Scholars Alexandra Heller-Nicholas And Craig Martin
• Audio Commentary For FOOTPRINTS By Film Historian Kat Ellinger
• Light Of The Moon — Interview With FOOTPRINTS Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
• FOOTPRINTS Trailer
• Introduction To THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
• Extended Workprint Version Of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH
• Sheila Allen Interview
• Natasha Morgan Interview
• Extended Sequences From THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH
• Penny Slinger Live At The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
• PENNY SLINGER: OUT OF THE SHADOWS Trailer

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Elizabeth Taylor as Lise
•       Ian Bannen as Bill
•       Guido Mannari as Carlo
•       Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Helen Fiedke
•       Luigi Squarzina as Lead Detective
•       Maxence Mailfort as Pierre
•       Andy Warhol as English Lord
•       Anita Bartolucci as Saleswoman
•       Gino Giuseppe as Police Commissioner
•       Marino Masé as Traffic Policeman
•       Bedy Moratti as Dress Shop Owner
•       Dino Mele as Police Captain
•       Alessandro Perrella as Detective
•       Quinto Parmeggiani as Hotel Waiter
•       Nadia Scarpitta as Elderly Lady at Airport
•       Maurizio Bonuglia as Detective
•       Katarzyna Walter as Izabela
•       Marek Barbasiewicz as Professor Rudolf Jung
•       Malgorzata Lorentowicz as Aunt Izy
•       Jonasz Kofta as Drug Addict
•       Edwin Petrykat as Marceli
•       Jan Prochyra
•       Andrzej Grabarczyk as Gardener
•       Wiktor Grotowicz as Hypnotist
•       Elzbieta Panas as Nurse
•       Slawomir Kozlowski as Man in White Trench Coat
•       Tadeusz Skorulski as Commissioner
•       Andrzej Mrozek as Patient
•       Eliasz Kuziemski as Traveling Salesman
•       Florinda Bolkan as Alice Cespi
•       Peter McEnery
•       Nicoletta Elmi as Paula Burton
•       Caterina Boratto as Boutique Owner
•       John Karlsen as Alfred Lowenthal
•       Esmeralda Ruspoli
•       Evelyn Stewart as Mary
•       Miriam Acevedo as Alice's Supervisor
•       Rosita Torosh as Marie Leblanche
•       Luigi Antonio Guerra
•       Klaus Kinski as Professor Blackmann
•       Lila Kedrova as Mrs. Heim
•       Jane Arden as Therapist
•       Sheila Allen as Meg the Peg
•       Jack Bond
•       Liz Danciger
•       Elaine Donovan
•       Susanka Fraey
•       Ann Lynn
•       Sally Minford as Cellist
•       Jenny Moss
•       Penny Slinger

Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Director: Grzegorz Warchol

Director: Luigi Bazzoni

Director: Jane Arden

Producer: Franco Rossellini

Producer: Luciano Perugia

Producer: Jack Bond

Producers: Jack Bond

Producers: Luciano Perugia

Producers: Franco Rossellini

Additional Details

Label: Severin Films

Genre: Horror

Language: English

Run Time: 390 mins

Region: 1

Release Date: 10/25/22

UPC: 760137110781